Chris Kennedy has withdrawn as the Green party’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election. The party’s announcement describes the reason as “personal and family reasons”. However, it is notable that Kennedy was the target of a huge pile-on by the UK Israel lobby before his withdrawal for sharing a post describing the the attack on Golders Green ambulances as a false-flag attack.
Kennedy apologised and deleted the comment.
Makerfield: worrying sign
The efforts the Israel lobby made to drive out a left-wing candidate are another worrying indication about Burnham’s candidacy. It suggests that Israel advocates want to help Burnham win so they can extract a ‘quid pro quo’ for one of their number, Josh Simons, resigning as Makerfield’s MP to open the way for him.
The withdrawal could well be another example of the Greens’ increasing tendency to cave to lobby attacks rather than stand their ground over Israel’s genocide, other crimes and propaganda tactics.
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It’s worrying how quickly so many in the green party cave to these media narratives.
Thinking that Zionists might engage in a false flag attack to drive up concerns about antisemitism (there are numerous examples of hard-line Zionists intentionally driving up fear of antisemitic sentiment within Jewish communities), isn’t antisemitic in of itself. It is antizionist. It would be antisemitic if the post claimed ‘the Jews did this’ or if they claimed that the loss of the community ambulances or the concerns of the community were trifling.
The credibility, or lackof credibility, of the claims that it was a false flag is irrelevant as it only pertains to a well earned suspicion of the Zionist playbook.